The third title in the Creators of the American Mind Series, Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the Myth, provides an accurate but novel approach to Lincoln and his place in American history. This book presents Lincoln as a man, a flesh-and-blood individual, by letting him speak for himself and by providing comments about him by his contemporaries as well as by Lincoln scholars who have studied him from various historical perspectives. The book places Lincoln in historical perspective by following his rise through nineteenth-century history and politics, his conduct of the Civil War while he was president, the act of emancipation of the slaves, his assassination and its effects on the nation, his posthumous elevation to a central place in American political mythology, all using contemporary documents and the writings of Lincoln scholars. This book is in-depth enough to present a complete picture of Lincoln the Man and the Myth yet brief enough to serve as a supplement to a larger textbook on American history.

Demonstrates through the words of poets and orators as well as the assessments of historians, how Lincoln, after his tragic death, came to reflect the highest ideals of the Americans who followed him. How he became a Creator of the American Mind.

The text offers, at appropriate intervals, analyses of the material being examined, summations of that material, and questions that teachers and students may use for responsive, reflective essays or discussions of the material.

Featured at the end of the book are a number of topics for extended essays and/or term papers on all of the materials in the book.

The text provides a selected annotated bibliography on Lincoln so that students may dig more deeply into areas of Lincoln's life covered briefly or merely suggested in the book.

Preface Timeline Introduction

I. Lincoln the Man

The Image Young Man Lincoln Lincoln as Husband and Father Lincoln the Lawyer Lincoln in Congress and his "Mid-life Crisis:" The Burlingame Thesis Road to the White House "A House Divided" 1858 Debating Douglas 1858 Cooper-Union Address 1860 A Summation: Growth and Opportunity Questions for Responsive Essays

II. Lincoln the President

The Election of 1860 Leaving Illinois The First Inaugural Address 1861 President Abraham Lincoln A More Perfect Union: The Gettysburg Address Toward the Future: The Second Inaugural Address 1865 Lincoln's Death and Transformation "Quest for Immortality:" The Anderson Thesis A Summation: Wit and Conviction Questions for Responsive Essays

III. Lincoln the Liberator

Young Lincoln on Slavery The Trek to Emancipation: A Recreation by Stephen Oates An Address to Freedmen Nearing Emancipation: Oates Continues The Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln's Deepest Motives: The Burlingame Thesis Continued Contemporary White Reactions to the Emancipation A Northern View: Charles Sumner A Southern View: Jefferson Davis Freedmen's Responses to the Emancipator Frederick Douglass 1876 Booker T. Washington 1909 Twentieth Century Assessments of the Emancipator John Hope Franklin Stephen Oates A Summation: Pressure and Courage Questions for Responsive Essays

IV. Lincoln the Redeemer

The American "Political Religion" Lincoln's Own Religious Faith Lincoln in the Role of High Priest: The Thurow Thesis Lincoln in the Role of Redeemer: The Bellah Thesis Creators of the Redeemer Lincoln The Poets Walt Whitman William Cullen Bryant Herman Melville Edmund Stedman Edwin Markham James Whitcomb Riley Vachel Lindsay The Orators Ralph Waldo Emerson Woodrow Wilson Mario Cuomo A Summation: Lincoln and the Future

The third title in the Creators of the American Mind Series, Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the Myth, provides an accurate but novel approach to Lincoln and his place in American history. This book presents Lincoln as a man, a flesh-and-blood individual, by letting him speak for himself and by providing comments about him by his contemporaries as well as by Lincoln scholars who have studied him from various historical perspectives. The book places Lincoln in historical perspective by following his rise through nineteenth-century history and politics, his conduct of the Civil War while he was president, the act of emancipation of the slaves, his assassination and its effects on the nation, his posthumous elevation to a central place in American political mythology, all using contemporary documents and the writings of Lincoln scholars. This book is in-depth enough to present a complete picture of Lincoln the Man and the Myth yet brief enough to serve as a supplement to a larger textbook on American history.

Demonstrates through the words of poets and orators as well as the assessments of historians, how Lincoln, after his tragic death, came to reflect the highest ideals of the Americans who followed him. How he became a Creator of the American Mind.

The text offers, at appropriate intervals, analyses of the material being examined, summations of that material, and questions that teachers and students may use for responsive, reflective essays or discussions of the material.

Featured at the end of the book are a number of topics for extended essays and/or term papers on all of the materials in the book.

The text provides a selected annotated bibliography on Lincoln so that students may dig more deeply into areas of Lincoln's life covered briefly or merely suggested in the book.

Table of Contents

Preface Timeline Introduction

I. Lincoln the Man

The Image Young Man Lincoln Lincoln as Husband and Father Lincoln the Lawyer Lincoln in Congress and his "Mid-life Crisis:" The Burlingame Thesis Road to the White House "A House Divided" 1858 Debating Douglas 1858 Cooper-Union Address 1860 A Summation: Growth and Opportunity Questions for Responsive Essays

II. Lincoln the President

The Election of 1860 Leaving Illinois The First Inaugural Address 1861 President Abraham Lincoln A More Perfect Union: The Gettysburg Address Toward the Future: The Second Inaugural Address 1865 Lincoln's Death and Transformation "Quest for Immortality:" The Anderson Thesis A Summation: Wit and Conviction Questions for Responsive Essays

III. Lincoln the Liberator

Young Lincoln on Slavery The Trek to Emancipation: A Recreation by Stephen Oates An Address to Freedmen Nearing Emancipation: Oates Continues The Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln's Deepest Motives: The Burlingame Thesis Continued Contemporary White Reactions to the Emancipation A Northern View: Charles Sumner A Southern View: Jefferson Davis Freedmen's Responses to the Emancipator Frederick Douglass 1876 Booker T. Washington 1909 Twentieth Century Assessments of the Emancipator John Hope Franklin Stephen Oates A Summation: Pressure and Courage Questions for Responsive Essays

IV. Lincoln the Redeemer

The American "Political Religion" Lincoln's Own Religious Faith Lincoln in the Role of High Priest: The Thurow Thesis Lincoln in the Role of Redeemer: The Bellah Thesis Creators of the Redeemer Lincoln The Poets Walt Whitman William Cullen Bryant Herman Melville Edmund Stedman Edwin Markham James Whitcomb Riley Vachel Lindsay The Orators Ralph Waldo Emerson Woodrow Wilson Mario Cuomo A Summation: Lincoln and the Future